Type 071 large dock landing ship

Type 071 Large Dock Landing Ship

On April 23, 2019, the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Navy was held in Qingdao, Shandong Province. Among them, 32 Chinese naval vessels on parade were organized into six groups: submarine group, destroyer group, frigate group, landing ship group, auxiliary ship group and aircraft carrier group; 39 warplanes on parade were organized into 10 echelons: early-warning echelon, reconnaissance echelon, anti-submarine patrol aircraft echelon, bomber echelon, fighter echelon, naval fighter echelon, and naval helicopter echelon, and so on, which were inspected.

In addition, nearly 20 ships from more than 10 countries, including Russia, Thailand, Vietnam and India, including destroyers, frigates, landing craft and other types of ships, also took part in the parade. People's Navy 70th anniversary of the sea parade activities, the parade ship Yimengshan (port number 988), Wuzhishan (port number 987) belong to the 071-type large dock landing ship.

The Type 071 dock landing ship is a large multi-functional amphibious dock landing ship under the People's Liberation Army Navy, which can be used as the mother ship of landing craft to transport soldiers, infantry fighting vehicles, main battle tanks, etc. to start the landing operation, and can also carry amphibious vehicles, with a large helicopter landing deck and operating facilities.

This class of ship full load displacement more than 20,000 tons, is China's construction of 10,000 tons of combat ships, but also for China's large multi-functional amphibious ships of the pioneering work, but also can be said to be China's 10,000 tons of large-scale combat ships above the test of the work of the Chinese Navy amphibious ship strength has been qualitatively upgraded by the construction of the ship. 071 type at this stage there are already seven of the same type of ship, to become the world's any country can not underestimate the amphibious landing force. The amphibious landing force can't be underestimated by any country in the world.

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The Type 071 large dock landing ship, known as the Yutong class by NATO, is China's first independently designed dock landing ship.

Basic information

Country: China.

Built: 2006 June.

Launched: December 20, 2006

Commissioning: 11/30/2007.

Full displacement tonnage: 10,000-50,000 tons.

Technical Data

Length: 210 meters.

Breadth: 28 meters.

Full load displacement: 20,000 tons.

Range: 11,000 kilometers.

Speed: 22 knots.

Structural features

The 071-class ships feature a landing design: the docking bay occupies almost 2/3 of the ship's length and is capable of accommodating a composite battalion and four Type 726 air cushion landing craft, each of which can transport one ZTD-05 amphibious assault vehicle, or two ZBD-05 amphibious infantry fighting vehicles, or up to 80 Marines, and the hull can be adjusted for draft The hull can be adjusted for draft, and can also carry conventional boat landing craft, which can enter and exit through a gate at the stern. The ship can take off and land two 2-8 helicopters on the deck at the same time, and the hangar can accommodate two more.